Tractor & Farming Heritage

Lonk Power

According to Walter H. Gastall Hon. Secretary of the Lonk Sheepbreeders Association 1948-1975, the Lonk “is an aristocrat by virtue of origins as ancient as the hills on which it roams.”

History

Indeed, his account of the breed’s history states that it originated from the common sheep Ovis Rusticus and traces back some 10,000 years to Ovis Amman or Argali of central Asia. Bred on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Pennines and thriving at 1000 to

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